New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-21
FAITHFUL LIBERAL ALLIES.
sr,ucH AND TRUE TO THE IRIsHMEN.
a nANouxr WHICH TYPITrED THE UNION OF Nv"
nxMocaACIEs-PLIGHT OF THE TORIES
OVER THE LAND BILL
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c.,,rtsnt, 1887. North Amerteas Caoh Fe'os o.
,e.nnv .Iulv qolThe cave-in of the Govern
.,.rt on the Land bill is no doubt in one sense
=. most important political event Of the week.
sya to that shall refer presently, but venture
to think that an event Of far deeper pontical
md even historical significance was the dinner
~iven tonight by the Liberal members TO Mr
psrnen and the Irish party. 1t Is the nrs'
time in history that party representing, as he
present Irish party does, the full breadth ano
aepth of Irish national sentiment, has iormaiAy
eommingled with any English party FOR eoou
or for i'll, 1t is an occasion OF lar reachins LII
portance Is it for good or for III 1hat Is onp
another way Of putting question wnich INC
time has come for looking squarely In the ia0o'
DO we want peace with England ana inc Eng
Hsh people CT do we notP since IL WI" o
universally granted that we do, ana since 'ne
leader of the Irish people was present toh'gh'
and nointed the course that way, the event may
certainly be looked on as fraught Win promise
a, the best things for the union Of the two
aemocracies which it typifed. 1t was certainty
/. generous impulse which prompted our Liberal
,,;ends The Coercion Act received the Royal
assent and became law yesterday. 10 morrow
half of us may be In Jail. To-day. tomorrow
and Yesterday slander is heaped on SANDERS hard
AGAINST the representatives Of the Irish people.
II is in such an hour-the hour Of calumny ana
danocr-that the Liberal party chooses TO prove
20 the Irish party that they are no holiday
friends. The Irish people, both at home ana
beyond the seas, will remember them Tor TINS
with gratitude whatever the future may hoio.
Mr. DlIwyn, the eldest member OF the i1Derai
party presided to night, and he announced
hearty greeting from Mr. Gladstone himself. Mr..
parnell as guest Of the evening in responding
IN the principal toast delivered ono Of the hnest
speeches he has ever made, and looked. am
glad TO say in excellent form.
The meeting at the Carlton Club yesterday mas
completely upset the situation. LORD saiisoutys
cynically frank announcement amounts to saying
that as the o elections prove that the country
does not want Coercion. and as the Liberal
IJnionists are in panic. and as Lord Randolph
Churchill is eager to make trouble, the Govern
ment ere prepared to throw the Irish landlords
overheard in order to save themselves from ship
wreck Their Land bill is to be hacked to
pieces and transformed completely. judicial
rents. which Mr. Goschen only last Saturday
was swearing before high Heaven were as sacred
as his own Egyptian bonds are to be revised or
abated. Never was there a more complete and
unaffected surrender to the inevitable.
Lord Salisbury's freedom from hypocrisy is
fresh and engaging in these days of cant. but
whether mere freedom from hypocrisy will be
sufficient to compensate in the eyes OF the prac-
ticel British public for absolute inaptitude re-
mains to be SEEN II the Land bill, as the Gov
ernment now propose TO amend 1T, be passed into
law and be fairly worked, the Coercion Act will
be a dead letter and the whole session that has
been spent in passing it will even from the
Tory point OF view. be voted wasted time. John
Bull or we are grossly deceived in him. is not
the sort of man to relish paying for this sort
of thing. T. Il. L. III. =.